Recent content by desert_steve

^Lol!^ OP, I suggest you start digging through threads on this site (and others) and read about the various suspension designs and how they work. Theres TONS of info out there to help you learn and figure out how crazy you want to get. This stuff gets expensive pretty quickly and if you just...

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^ Agreed. Any chance you could run from a nearby tube to "cradle" that intake tube (like a half shell)? Then hose clamp them together and call it good.

At the very least we need to know what year your truck is so that we can make you a parts list. MANY years ago (20+) I lived in PA and also wanted a prerunner. I took a 93 extended cab 2wd, put some longer dixon coils on the front to lift it (didnt even bother with longer brake lines or shocks...

I know they say not to use brake cleaner or anything thats chlorinated to clean parts before welding...

Full set of Hanneman fiberglass fenders Front glass is the 5" Ivan style 3 piece glass (fenders and hood). Its the shorter "supercharger" hood that still uses the factory cowl and it has the grommets for hood pins mounted in it. Glass has been mounted (as can be seen from the pics) but theres...

Thats a poor mans beadlock!

So checking out their website, that link kit looks badass. AND they offer an axle-side mount kit specifically for people wanting to swap to a tundra/sequoia/etc axle. Yeah, the kit is going to be a little more expensive than swapping to leafs, but not by that much. New deavers (I suggest H70+...

Sounds like a fun project. How thick is the wood/top that youre strapping to? I only ask because I ratchet strapped the hell out of my spare tire because my fear was it coming loose in a crash/roll-over event and getting killed by my own tire. Of course, when I was 20 yrs old I had no...

Im running a 33x12.50 on factory 15" wheels. Theres definitely enough room to run a 35" tire on the bottom. Probably could fit it on top of the rack/shelf too but it might be tight front-to-back. I also like Adams idea of doing a shelf on sliders. Would be rad if the tire and other rarely used...

Another thing you learned was the names of (most of) the tow truck drivers in your area... [for clarification it was due to break-downs, not gay stuff]

Doesnt optoffroad make some kind of link kit for these things thats giving the 3rd gen guys awkward boners? I kept my 4runner on leafs because thats what it came with and I too didnt think I could pull-off linking it (amongst other reasons). Here we are 10+ yrs later and I regret NOT linking it...

Heres the rack in the back of my 1st gen 4unner. I like the bronco posted above with the offset rack, if I had the width I wouldve done that. In my case, Ive experimented with the tire on the bottom and gear boxes and stuff on top, but the boxes on top slide around and are a pain in the ass to...

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